![]() ![]() He’s dead.Ĭut to the next morning, when Fontaine wakes up, apparently perfectly healthy, and repeats the actions of the previous day, unaware of what went down the night before. Josephine had a fish fry at the community center, and I’m still full.”) On one typically bleak and foreboding night, Fontaine tracks down the pimp Slick Charles (Foxx), who owes him money, in a seedy, film noir motel - and upon exiting Slick’s room, Fontaine is gunned down by a rival dealer. John Boyega’s Fontaine is a hard-nosed, ruthless drug dealer who will literally run you over if you infringe on his turf - though we do see flashes of Fontaine’s humanity, whether he’s putting up a neighborhood scamp called Junebug (Trayce Malachi), pouring some of his malt liquor into the paper cup of Leon Lamar’s Frog, or looking after his mother, who is always locked in her room and never seems to be hungry. ![]() This is a film that has much to say about the systematic oppression of marginalized and exploited classes, and the powers that be who will go to extreme measures to make sure the more things change, the more things stay the same. With director Taylor and co-writer Tony Rettenmaier delivering a script with as many laughs per minute as any film this year, and a brilliant cast led by Paris, Foxx and John Boyega, “Tyrone” exists in a self-contained world where conspiracy theories are not only possible but most likely not just theories. Now showing at local theaters and premiering Friday on Netflix. Rated R (pervasive language, violence, some sexual material and drug use). Netflix presents a film directed by Juel Taylor and written by Taylor and Tony Rettenmaier. ![]() Wait a minute, what? Even the community where the entire mystery/thriller is set is deliberately vague - we only know it’s called The Glen - and don’t look to the license plates for any clues, because they simply carry the slogan, “A SWELL PLACE.” This is one of the many clever aspects of “They Cloned Tyrone,” a genre-bending blaxploitation film with elements of “Get Out,” “Sorry to Bother You,” “They Live,” and time-loop fare such as “Groundhog Day” and “Russian Doll.” … Cryptocurrency’s a bubble, everybody knows that. Judging by the grainy lensing, the clothing and the hair styles, the songs on the soundtrack, the gas-guzzling GM vehicles, the furniture and the land lines, the discussion of “SpongeBob SquarePants” as if it’s a new thing, we gotta be more than two decades in the past, right? Ah, but then a sex worker named Yo-Yo (Teyonah Paris) is telling her, um, supervisor, Slick Charles (Jamie Foxx), about some investment opportunities she’s been considering, and she says: “Blockchain. We’ve seen so many movies and TV series set in a dystopian future where the exact year is splashed across the screen with a giant graphic, and so much time-travel fare that tells us exactly where we’ve landed on the time continuum - but as we’re settling in for the first few scenes of director/co-writer Juel Taylor’s audacious, original, bold, hilarious and whip-smart sci-fi social satire “They Cloned Tyrone,” it’s impossible to nail down the place and time. ![]()
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